AN INDEPENDENCE FROM EUROPEFormer UK MEP Mike Nattrass

The Mike Nattrass Column for the Rock & District
News

July 2012

Albert Einstein provided one definition of madness as
“doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results”. The EU appear to indulge in this
behaviour with the "Do it again until you get it right
referendums"- the Irish cure and then the "Give them
the money again and again until you stop begging" - the
Greek cure.

Treating a patient involves prescribing the right treatment.
Giving sick countries a pack of economic sticking plasters will
only prolong their illness.

Spain recently became the fourth eurozone patient to ask for
aid and has received a temporary painkiller from the mad bank
doctor. Will they come back for more? .... you can bank on
it!

You can gauge the ability of EU monetary advisers by the state
of the single currency. Even the German Chancellor doesn't
laugh about the Euro, in fact she can't even "wangle a
smirkle".

It is time our Government faced the EU money monster and gave
the British taxpayer an EU referendum. The Germans and the UK
foot the bill, so the UK taxpaying piper should be allowed to
call the tune.

A new Populus survey shows eight out of ten Brit's want a
referendum and more than half of respondents want an immediate
vote to take place regarding Britain 's membership of the
EU.

Last year, I, along with Nikki Sinclaire MEP and Trevor Colman
MEP, travelled to London to deliver a petition of 100,000
signatures calling for a straight "In or Out" EU
referendum.

The petition, which was launched in the West Midlands , was
presented to Number 10 Downing Street last September. Our action,
which was cross-party, triggered a Commons debate with the
Lib-Lab-Con Party giving urgent three line whips, for all to vote
against. Pleasingly a number of MPs revolted to embarrass their
parties, but the plea for a referendum was denied, despite vote
catching election policies to the contrary.

It is clear, from the results of the Populus survey that the
vast majority of British people want a straight "In or
Out" EU membership referendum.

Euro-fanatic Ken Clarke, who is a long-time locum assisting
the EU mad doctor, prompted a backlash when he described
supporters of a referendum as ‘a few extreme
nationalists’.

Maybe he should take some medicine himself and recognise it is
the majority and not a minority of the British people who want
their views to be heard on Europe . Can he not see that Europe is
for inward looking isolationists, whereas there is a whole world
out there, including 54 Commonwealth Countries, pleading for
trade.

When we joined the Common Market we were told it was about
trade. Ted Heath lied to the British people when he advised
people to vote for EU membership, with a promise of ‘no
loss of UK national sovereignty’. Years later Heath
admitted his goal had been ‘ever closer political
union’ and now the C of E are proposing a plaque to glorify
his memory in Westminster Abbey. On this basis, no doubt Mr
Quisling will be entitled to a plaque at Traitors Gate somewhere
in darkest Norway .

The EU Parliament has created more laws for us than
Westminster has made since 1485 and the battle of Bosworth Field
. Our nation’s sovereignty has been eroded by the EU which
is about political domination, or as the EU President frequently
says "This is the New European Empire into which we have all
pooled our Sovereignty" at which point I shout "Oh no
we didn't" at the EU pantomime in Strasbourg .

So can we settle this issue, once and for all, and have a
straight In or Out referendum on EU Membership? With the correct
vote we could then prescribe our own medicines and remedies to
treat our own ills.

To quote Einstein once more “The world is a dangerous
place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but
because of the people who won’t do anything about
it”.

Promoted by Mike Nattrass on behalf of Independence from Europe, both at 48, Fentham Road, Hampton in
Arden, B92 0AY.
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